Post-2020 Climate Change Regime Formation

Chung, Suh-Yong

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“…This debate on international climate cooperation tends to frame it as a question of "top down" versus "bottom-up" approaches (Andresen, 2015;Green, Sterner, & Wagner, 2014;Hare, Stockwell, Flachsland, & Oberthür, 2010;Michaelowa, 2015;Rayner, 2010;Stavins et al, 2014). It is generally accepted that a "top down" global agreement would be optimal in both environmental and economic senses (Gollier & Tirole, 2015;Stern, Bowen, & Whalley, 2014), but there are various reasons to do with the incentives states face that mean this cannot be achieved especially in the face of the urgency of meeting a 2 C target, prompting policymakers and economists to look more towards the bottom-up approach (Chung, 2013;Sabel & Victor, 2017). This approach could be less effective but lead to better cooperation (Keohane & Victor, 2016).…”

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Political economies of climate change

Paterson

P-Laberge

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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Political economy approaches across the social sciences provide powerful explanations for important dynamics within the global response to climate change. This article discusses in particular how they provide explanations of the social origins of greenhouse gas emissions, the dominant policy and governance responses to climate change, recurrent political conflicts over these responses, and the patterns of bargaining between states, businesses, and other actors. Underlying these dynamics are a set of contradictions or tensions between the character of capitalism as a social system and the demands of decarbonizing the global economy, specifically: between the imperative for growth that constrains and shapes responses; concerning the power of large transnational businesses and other incumbent interests to block responses; and over the embeddedness of carbon emissions in daily life. The article explores the implications of these contradictions as well as some of the important theoretical debates about the limits of political economy approaches. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > Multilevel and Transnational Climate Change Governance Climate Economics > Economics and Climate Change

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